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Read. Follow. Verify.Texas requires a statewide real-time emergency communications platform for disaster response
Last action · July 21, 2025: FiledSponsor: Barbara Gervin-Hawkins
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What This Bill Proposed
Texas directs the creation of a statewide real-time emergency communications platform to coordinate disaster response among state, regional, and local agencies and first responders, effective 91 days after the legislative session ends.
Emergency management personnel, local municipalities, counties, and designated state agencies are required to incorporate a new standardized digital platform into their emergency plans for disaster preparedness and resource tracking.
- The Texas Division of Emergency Management operates under Chapter 418 of the Government Code to coordinate statewide disaster preparedness and response. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Municipalities and Counties
Local governments must incorporate the new statewide emergency communications platform into their area emergency management plans.
State Response Agencies
Designated state agencies are granted mandatory access to the platform and permitted to use available funds to cover platform costs.
Key Facts
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · introduced in the House.
Procedural history
1 action- Jul 21, 2025HouseIntroducedFiled
Version history
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Centralized Emergency Communications Mandate
The legislation transitions state and local disaster response from disparate communication methods to a unified, mandatory statewide digital platform.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 75)
- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz30Current news / social attention level
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